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THE nitrogen supply of wood-boring insects has never been investigated. Ripper1 assumes that it is derived directly from the wood. Mansour and Mansour-Bek2 arrive at the same conclusion, and since their summary has been published, Parkin3 has found a proteolytic enzyme in Lyctus, which supports, this view.
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Ripper, Z. vergl. Physiol., 13 (1930).
Mansour and Mansour-Bek, Biol. Rev., 9 (1934).
Parkin, Ann. App. Biol., 23 (1936).
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HOPF, H. Protein Digestion of Wood-boring Insects. Nature 139, 286–287 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139286b0
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